GENERAL ELECTION

Waikato Times, Volume 99, Issue 16654, 20 November 1925, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION

SOUTHERN MAORI SEAT.

CHRISTCHURCH, Thursday

Allegations of the casting of illegal votes at the recent election arc made by one of the candidates for the Southern Maori scat, Mr Tuiti Macdonald, of Levin, ,who probably • will take the case to the Electoral Court. Mr Macdonald stood as an Independent. The successful candidate was Mr 11. W. Uru. lie polled 211 votes to Mr Macdonald's 195. There are five grounds on which Mr Macdonald declares that various votes cast arc iilegal. They are as follow: (1) Several persons voted though they were under age; (2) half-caste voters also were on the European roll, though it was illegal for half-castes to be on two rolls; (3) descendants of half-castes by Europeans are not supposed to vote in a Maori election, but several did so; (4) natives from other electorates voted at the Southern Maori election; (5) other natives had voted, though they, had no legal right to do so as they came within I lie criminal clauses of the Legislature Mr Macdonald declares that lie knows of 30 or 40 votes that will be affected, and that would probably affect the result, as the majority for Mr Uru was 16.